The Chronicle of Higher Education

    Murray,Janet H."Interactive Design: a Profession in Search of Professional Education." The Chronicle of Higher Education. 45.33 (1999): 4- 6.

    More students should learn interactive designing techniques.

    Although Murray's emphasis on disparity between demand for the high technology academic teachers and lack of the adequate curricula to educate them does not carry an apocalyptic weight, it points to a concrete and undesirable shortage. ( 10/10/2000)
 

IEEE Intelligent Systems

    Haym Hirsch, Barbara Hayes- Roth, Andrew Stern, Janet H. Murray. "Interactive Fiction." IEEE Intelligent Systems. 13.6 (1998): 12

    Computer, with its technical advances, enables to fulfill the expectations of its users interested in the interactive fiction.

    Quite surprisingly the link between a non- traditional medium and the traditional, basic expectations of the reader amply forsters these expectations. (reviewed 10/24/00)
 

The Chronicle of Higher Education

    Murray, Janet H. "A New Kind of Storyteller: Half Hacker, Half Bard." The Chronicle of Higher Education. 44.6 (1997): 11.

    In the epoch of continuous increasing sophistication of computer programs the innovative narrators will have to entertain their own poetics with their high technology skills.

    As the creators of interactive narrative predict, the future readers will be able to identify themselves with the narratives' characters. Possible impact of consciousness switch on readers' selves is less predictable and may require some attention. (reviewed 10/24/00)
 

Computers and the Humanities

    Murray Janet H. "Anatomy of the New Medium: Literary and Pedagogic Uses of Advanced Linguistic Computer Structures." Computers and the Humanities. 25.1 (1991): 1- 15.

    Murray examines capability of a hypothetical computer Advanced Language System for teaching and creative writing.

    Although advanced media allow expansion of teachers' and writers' methodology beyond conventional, creative element in both areas will be retained. (reviewed 10/10/00)